Liberty Kids cartoon series (4TH of July Vanity)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh0onAEk0p0 ^

[NavyCanDo]

About The Series

The primary goal of the Liberty's Kids TV series is to provide 7-12 year olds with a fresh and exciting experience of the extraordinary period of 1773 to 1789 in American history.

Through the eyes of two young apprentice reporters named Sarah and James, viewers of Liberty's Kids will go on adventures in search of the real stories of the American Revolution. Sarah is a proper British girl right off the ship from England and James, a fifteen-year-old apprentice, sees things from a cocky colonist's perspective. They meet famous historical figures such as George Washington, plus other figures that should be, like Phillis Wheatley - a published poet while still enslaved. Although the setting is Colonial America, Liberty's Kids' characters find themselves in the middle of a revolution that confronts issues that still fill the newspapers today - gun control, downsizing government, lower taxes, freedom of the press, and race relations.

Liberty's Kids offers caretakers, from parents to teachers, an extraordinary resource through which they can share with young people the inspiring stories, characters, and values at the heart of America's great experiment in democracy

[NavyCanDo]

This has been a great cartoon series to help my 9 year old learn about the Revolution and it opens further discussion about it between him and me. It is available on Netflix Streaming. He's watching it as I type. As soon as one episode is over he ask for another. He loves it! I just asked him how he likes the cartoon and he said it is "Awesome"

Here is a clip from the Bunker Hill episode

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh0onAEk0p0

Here

[Theo]

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[Tanniker Smith]

They used to be on here in NYC on Sunday mornings years ago. My son and nephew watched an episode or two with me. (They didn't have a choice -- they were having a sleepover in the living room.) It wasn't there cup of tea, but I pointed out some of the educational stuff without mentioning that it was educational stuff.

Cronkite as Franklin was not as annoying as I'd thought he'd be.

[FourPeas]

My kids practically have all the episodes memorized. They’ve been a great jumping off point for lots of other learning and discussions, and book reading.

[tbw2]

Aside from Netflix, where else is the show viewable on demand?

[NavyCanDo]

There broken up into half show segments, but it looks like Youtube has them.